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Steve Bannon: “They're basically trying to close the South China Sea.”

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Steve Bannon's Warning On China's Trade War

Published August 21, 2019 | Video Starts at 01:03

The economic war, what we call all forces of government, right? All areas of government focus on the economic war against the United States. Their military buildup. They're basically trying to close the South China Sea. It is the most geopolitically ambitious strategy we've ever seen. Let me be very specific. The three great theories of geopolitics. You've got Mackinder's theory of the Asian landmass. (01:03–01:08)

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Asserts that China is trying to close the South China Sea.

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“They've essentially taken 350 million of their people from kind of working poverty to middle class, and 400 million people from abject…”
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“The average compounded growth of the United States of America from 1946 to 2000 was 3.5%.”
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“Since China joined the World Trade Organization, the growth of the United States is 1.9%.”
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“The American banking system has $19 trillion of assets on it.”
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“The Chinese banking system, I think, has $49 trillion of assets.”
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“I think 45 trillion have been put on the books since 2008 [in the Chinese banking system].”
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“It's one third of the world's trade. It's $5 trillion.”
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“The grand strategy [of China] is very simple, is to be a hegemonic world power.”
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“Their strategy of being like the East India Company in Sub Saharan Africa, what they're doing in the Caribbean now, what they're doing in…”
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“All areas of government focus on the economic war against the United States.”
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“The Chinese are the only power in world history to ever try to do all three [geopolitical strategies] simultaneously.”
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“The Chinese economic system is built on a house of sand.”
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“It's going to lead us to a greater financial debacle than 2008 ever was.”
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“What China was able to do in basically coordination with the elites in the west was de industrialize the industrial democracies of the west.”
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“Globalization, what's coming out of Davos, has stripped our sovereignty from us.”
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“The great investment banks in London and in New York became the investor relations department for [the Chinese] regime.”
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“Trump's program is a half a trillion dollars in tariffs, right, to tariff goods.”
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“The Chinese look at us as a tributary state to them.”
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“The central beating heart of [U.S. economic slowdown] is China.”
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“The new NAFTA deal is setting up a geostrategic manufacturing base to counter East Asia.”
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“Japan is very quickly going to be part of [a bilateral deal].”
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“The EU, Juncker has already told Trump, has already indicated that they're going to be a part of this too.”
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“Trump has reoriented the entire world's supply chain away from China.”
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“China has to create, I think it's some number of 11 million jobs a year.”
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“Every number comes out of China to me, has to be questioned, verified.”
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“We may be hurtling to another financial crisis driven by this financial model of China.”
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“On the day that Donald Trump took the oath of office on January 20th of 2017, [the Federal Reserve's balance sheet] was $4.5 trillion.”
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“Those banks are going to implode.”
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“The reason Donald Trump's president, the reason you're seeing these populist revolts... is the little guy is fed up with a group of elites.”
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“They want regime change in the United States.”
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“Pence said yesterday...that shows that Chinese involvement and meddling.”
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“China's going to be our big buddy. I think you're going to see a double and triple down on one belt, one road.”
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“I believe...in five years there'll be in a shooting war in the South China sea.”
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“They built essentially seven or eight stationary aircraft carriers.”
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“The United States itself was not really engaged institutionally against China.”
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“China considers the South China Sea to be an internal sea to China.”
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“The South China Sea and the Persian Gulf are the two greatest hotspots in the world for a global conflict to start.”
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“The international courts ruled that it was inappropriate for [China] to be there [in the South China Sea].”
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“The health of the American economy is based on trade.”
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“Populists and economic nationalists are not anti trade. They're anti this radical concept of free trade when you're trading with a…”
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“What Trump wants and what he said from day one is fair trade and reciprocity.”
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“The United States is a Pacific power.”
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“America first stands for national security, where it's in the vital national security interest of the United States.”
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“If we lose the South China Sea, we will lose any type of commerce trying to control the whole place.”
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“The engagement with China is absolutely vital.”
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“The 300,000 students are here on student visas.”
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“Up to, I think it's two thirds, could be intelligence assets.”
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“Stephen Miller had the plan in place to get all 300,000 Chinese students out of the country.”
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“Pope Francis just cut a deal that lets the atheists that run the regime in Beijing actually pick our bishops.”
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“They're financed by the [People's Liberation Army].”
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“The greatest blowback [President Trump] got on this was the Republicans.”
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“China's predatory capitalism is what they stand on.”
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“Mike Pence, yesterday, the Vice President, United States, essentially threw down and said, hey, no more games.”
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